please support ballot imaging

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http://bradblog.com/?p=12400

•And, speaking of...on the eve of Tuesday's much-watched U.S. Senate special election in Alabama, multi-partisan Election Integrity advocates file suit to force the state to retain "ballot images" from the state's paper ballot digital-scanners. New York Daily News' Editorial Board joins them in that call...for very good reason. (My interview several days ago with the longtime election integrity champ, John Brakey, who helped organize the lawsuit and effort, is right here.)

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ballot imaging would make it possible for anyone interested to count the votes in the upcoming alabama election

we need transparency in our election process and this would be a big step in that direction

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1. it is illegal for them not to retain the images...

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bama-ballot-blindness-electronic-images-retained-article-1.3684355

we want them to go further and make the images public

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2. Do their scanners actually take an image?

The oldest optical-scan voting systems scan ballots using optical mark recognition scanners. Voters mark their choice in a voting response location, usually filling a rectangle, circle or oval, or by completing an arrow. Various mark-sense voting systems have used a variety of different approaches to determining what marks are counted as votes. Early systems, such as the Votronic, introduced in 1965, had a single photosensor per column of marks on the ballot. Most such tabulators used analog comparators that counted all marks darker than a fixed threshold as being votes.[2] The Optech line of scanners developed by Business Records Corporation and sold by both Election Systems & Software and Sequoia Voting Systems is a current example of this technology.

The use of digital imaging technology to view the ballot does not necessarily imply more sophisticated mark recognition. For example, the Avante Vote-Trakker simply counts the number of dark and light pixels in each marking area to determine if the mark counts as a vote.[3] More sophisticated mark recognition algorithms are sensitive to the shape of the mark as well as the total overall darkness, as illustrated by the ES&S Model 100, introduced in the mid 1990s.[4]

The ballot can be immediately tabulated at polling stations allowing for voters to be notified by the voting system of voting errors such as an overvote and can prevent residual votes. One such method can display a digital image of the ballot being submitted and allows the voter to review how their ballots are being read.[5] This is known as a precinct-count voting system. Alternately the ballots can be collected in the polling station and tabulated later at a central facility, known as central-count voting system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_scan_voting_system

Or do they just sense the marks on the ballots as the ballot is fed through the scanner?

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3. the court filing says 85% do have the imaging

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iLECZaH2x7O95INn52y-j7fUMYM75R_9/view

the lawyer on this is really good so i trust his filing